SHADOWINESS Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

shadowiness

noun

Definition of shadowiness

as in vagueness

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Noun

Word-of-mouth dies from vagueness more often than from distrust.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
What erodes trust is vagueness, backtracking and the sense that someone is managing you rather than leveling with you.

— Aleeza Gerstein, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of vagueness

Noun

But the murkiness doesn’t last long in a production that achieves an admirable balance between objectivity and emotion, abstraction and representation.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Because of the legal murkiness, Pratte urges people to talk to an attorney before foregoing registration.

— Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of murkiness

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Third, where do people need to remain accountable, particularly when AI is interpreting ambiguity or influencing a consequential decision?

— Gregg Aldana, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Unlike a sheer dress or exposed lingerie layered beneath another garment, there was little ambiguity about what was functioning as Tyla’s top.

— Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of ambiguity

Noun

What The Dark Wizard does differently is grapple with Potter’s impenetrability without being able to resolve it, and consider how that indecision might change our perceptions of his life and his May 2015 death while BASE jumping in Yosemite.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 May 2026
Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.

— Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025

Definition of impenetrability

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When Lee is so clearly shattered, sitting at home in silence and in darkness?

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Curators Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari have parceled nearly four decades’ worth of art across two floors of the New York museum, casting much of the exhibition in inky darkness.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of darkness

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